I need to write an import tool that takes a large number of existing images and create DAM records for them in a TYPO3 system.
The only DAM related manuals that I can find are frontend related, with nothing at all for the API. I have tried to look through the code itself, but there'S far too much in there to be able to find what I'm looking for.
So basically I'm looking for a good API manual/guide (if there is one) or an example of how what I need to do might be achieved.
No there's no such API, last time when I had to perform similar task it was done with custom extension. All you need is to insert record to tx_dam table and eventually connect it with some category/categories with mm table.
On the other hand DAM has own
indexingmodule, which allows you to create DAM records for files uploaded via other way than DAM module. Maybe it's not super comfortable and requires attention, but you can do what you need without additional programming.